It was mentioned last week that you need to participate in the Facebook groups you belong to in order to make valuable connections. This is obvious, of course, but you’d be amazed at how many people join groups and then do nothing. They rarely post or comment. Or worse yet – they lurk in the…
Okay – you’ve found some great groups to join and are ready to begin participating. You might be tempted to simply post a blurb about yourself with a link to your business several times a week. This isn’t a good idea, though. For one thing, many groups discourage blatant selling. The goal of joining Facebook…
If you’ve been in business for a while, you’ll remember how difficult networking used to be. In the past, the best way for REALTORS® to network was face to face. You’d go to events, exchange business cards, give a five-second elevator speech and hope that you were building good connections. Fast forward to the age…
The world is certainly a smaller place than it was when I began selling real estate in 1986! What I mean by that is these days you are just as likely to meet someone who does not speak English as you are to meet a native English speaker. This is especially common in my area…
Have you ever done a google search for a business and saw a box on the right side of the search results with a map and information about a business? If someone searches your name, do you have one of those boxes show up for you too? If you’d like to have that for your…
When was the last time you had a listing presentation? How did you do? Did you feel a bit rusty or out of practice? If you are like most agents, listing presentations are not a daily activity or even a weekly one, so it is not uncommon to feel a bit out of practice when…
If you are a real estate agent, then you are constantly on the hunt for your next client. A fact of life in real estate sales is that if you don’t have someone committed to working with you on a sale of a home or a purchase of a home then you are out of…
Do you like to use all of Google’s free services? Gmail, Youtube, Maps, Search and many others? Most of us do, but did you know that every time that you use one of these services, Google captures a bit more information about you? You get to have free access to these services, but there is…
Lately I have been working with some agents who want to generate more Seller and Buyer leads. The trouble is, they don’t like any of the traditional methods of lead generation and they don’t have the capital to invest in buying leads. So, unless something else turns up, they are pretty well skunked. Then it…
I’ve talked about this before and I am going to talk about it again today. You have to have a way to capture those text messages between you and your clients so that you can store them with your transactions. Since so much communication gets done with text, email and voicemail, ignoring saving those messages…
